The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-07
INDUSTRIAL.


Feb. 26-Colke- drawers and miners of the Con-
nellsville (Pa.) region resumed work
Mar. 6-About nine thousand knights of
Labor, employed on the Gould roads in the
Southwest stopped work on account OF the DIS
charge of the foreman at Marshall, Tex.
Mar. 5-Strlke on the New York street cars
amicably arranged.
Mar. 1S-Strikers on the New Orleans divls-
ion of the Texas & Pacific road resumed work.
on an agreement to submit the case to the
United States Court for arbitration
Mar 22-The Knights of Labor refused H. NJ.
Hoxies offer for the Missouri road
Mar. 24-An attempt to run freight train out
OF the Missouri Pacific yards at ST. Louis,
caused trouble between the police and strikers.
Several persons injured and the militia had to
be called out.
Mar. 2j-Switchmen on Wabash road in St.
Louis, struck.
Mar. 2Sl-Jay Gould conserted to arbitration.
ana Grand Master Powderly ordered Knights To
resume work,
Mar. S1-Every one of the seventy-five trade
or labor unions in Chicago declared for eight
hour system.
Apr 20-Meeting of Congressional Special La
Dor Committee OF Wash ngton, Mr.. Powderly
appearing before it. On the I'd Jay Gould gave
ms testimony regarding causes of strike and
the session closed on the 23d.
Apr. 30-The Srand Jury at New York con-
demned boycotting.
May 1-Elght-hour agitation formally in
augurated in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
st. Louis and other large cities.
May 3--Attack OF mob upon Mccormick S
Reaper Companys factory, Chicago. Several
or the men shot by the police, a number OF
whom were also badly injured. End of the
strike on the Gould Railway system
May 5-ColIision between TIE strikers and
militia, at Bay View, near Milwaukee Wis.
Five men killed and several wounded.
May 6--The doings of the Anarchists IN Chi
cago Indignantly denounced by General Master
Workman Powderly
May END Of the brakemen's strike on the
Union Pacific road. .Advices show that 81, 900
persons joined in the demand for an eight-hour
day.
Chicago.
May 12-Bnl providing for the Electric New
York Arcade railway, the cost of which viii be
Sl0Q, 000,GJ2. signed by Governor Hill
May 12-East St. Louis evacuated by militia
May 25-TWelve thousand miners in the Vir-
glnia, Maryland and Pennsylvania coal regions.
who had been on strike, returned to work at
the old wages.
May gan association organized by forty
seven Philadelphia hosiery manufacturers EN-
ploying twelve thousand men, for protection
against unreasonable demands of employees.
May 2o-Master-masons of Chicago declared
the elght-hour movement a failure. :. Execu-
i've committee of knights OF Labor changed
from five to eleven members, with permanent
headquarters at Philadelphia.
June ILLINOIS State Labor Association CO..
Yened at Decatur.
June 5-Robert Schilling, knight of La
leader, indicted for conspiracy at Milwaukee.
June 3-Hosiery weav RS, to the number o
! .050 in the Kensington district of Philadel-
PHO, went on a strike.
June 4-Strilze of building trades in ST Touis
declared over
June 7-Nearly twelve thousand tailors in
w lllamsourg, y. Y, and Newark. N J. struck
TO help the eight thousand idle ones in New
York City.
June Sat meeing OF the International Ty
biographical Union, at Pittsburgh William Ami
son, OF Nashville, Tenn, was elected president,